Chapter 25. Don't Get Attached, You're Just a Sex Slave.
Chapter 25. Don't Get Attached, You're Just a Sex Slave.
"...If it were up to me, I'd bring Ymir along too, but just getting her released from the Magic Tower took some hard-fought negotiations. For the time being, she'll be staying in this city and continuing her original work."
"Yeah~ dragging an Archmage like me into grunt work like orc hunting would just tarnish the Magic Tower's reputation~"
Ymir spoke with biting sarcasm and let out a dry laugh. I'd had the impression when I first saw her, but she seemed like a young lady with a seriously foul temper.
Well, mages are all like that.
Especially if she became the youngest Archmage in history — that meant she'd done nothing but bury her nose in books during her formative years. In a way, it was only natural that her social skills were complete shit.
"If you're staying here, does that mean you've received some kind of instruction as well, Ymir?"
"Instruction? Don't be ridiculous. Do I look like the sort of person who takes orders from this woman?"
Ymir wheeled on Serika with a fierce glare. Serika flinched hard and instinctively leaned her body closer to mine.
Ah, right. Unlike me, she already knew her. She'd probably been put through the wringer by that ill-tempered mage more times than she could count, so it made sense she'd be cowed.
"I am simply relocating while you lot are off exterminating orc grunts. I intend to continue my personal research in peace."
"Indeed. If you wish to build a rapport with Dave here, who has newly joined the party, this city where adventurers gather is far more suitable than a closed-off place like the Magic Tower. Does that clarify things?"
"Ah, yes. Well... I understand."
To sum it up: while Serika followed Berdia on her training pilgrimage, I was supposed to play errand boy for that foul-tempered, cow-titted mage.
My position in the party was already porter and general dogsbody anyway, so running trivial errands was well within what I'd signed up for.
Berdia, too, seemed to have read that resignation in my attitude during our time together, and she showed firm trust as she asked me to stay with Ymir.
"To think I couldn't even bring you along on a proper adventure after you finally became an adventurer. Looking back, I've done you a disservice, Dave."
"No, please don't mind it at all. If anything, being allowed near a celebrity like Ymir, of all people, is honor enough for me..."
"'Honor' or whatever, I'd honestly rather you didn't hang around me and just went off to do your own work."
A voice suddenly cut into the conversation between me and Berdia.
Right after came a sharp click of the tongue. From the sound of it, even having someone near her seemed to grate on her.
Yeah, you bitch. I've got no desire to be friends with a piece of work like you either.
"Dave. Just a moment, before you leave."
Just as I was choking down that surge of irritation, Serika slammed her hand on the table and stared me down.
With an incredibly pale expression, at that.
Had something in the earlier conversation rubbed her the wrong way?
"S-so, there's something I need to say before I go... Is that alright?"
"...Something to say?"
"Quickly, this way!"
"Ah, alright! I'll follow, so stop pulling me..."
What the hell — she'd been quiet up until now, so why is she suddenly acting like this?
I glanced back, worried she might arouse suspicion about her relationship with me, but thankfully Berdia was already turned toward Ymir, who had her back to her.
"Ymir, I've said this over and over, but please try to get along with Dave. Once you've spent time with him, you'll understand why I say this..."
"What business is it of yours? It's not as though I said I'd go back to the Magic Tower. Those of us who are staying will manage on our own, so you just take that damned runt who reeks of milk and go enjoy your pig-butchering expedition already."
Grumbling though she was, Ymir couldn't bring herself to flat-out ignore Berdia, so she didn't flee from her seat.
It looked like Berdia could manage her, but once the two of us were alone, things might well proceed with her pushing me around.
Damn it. With that prickly personality of hers, it's not going to be easy to place her under hypnosis either.
"Dave."
My deliberation on how to toy with her was brief. Having arrived at a spot out of sight of anyone else, Serika began looking up at me with anxious eyes.
"Are you bothered by Ymir?"
"...What?"
"You are, aren't you?"
Serika pressed for an answer.
She seemed dead serious, but I still had no idea why she was acting like this.
"Well, I suppose I am, a little."
Still, I figured I ought to play along for now, so I decided to give a stock answer first.
"Ymir is someone who reached the rank of Archmage at our age. Honestly, it amazed me that Berdia even brought such an imposing figure into the party, and for a novice like me to have to stick with her for the time being..."
"That's not it. I'm talking about her chest."
"...What?"
"That chest!! That ridiculously huge chest!"
Serika cried out in alarm, right in front of my bewildered face.
Before I could even get another word out, she had backed me against the wall and slammed her fist against the space next to my head with a loud thud!
"Y-you definitely saw it, didn't you? Dave, you noticed Ymir's chest, didn't you?"
"N-no, I..."
"You absolutely noticed. A chest that absurdly huge would catch anyone's eye in an instant!"
She wasn't wrong about that.
But as it happened, while I was facing her, the only time I'd been conscious of her chest was when I'd first sized up her figure. That was it.
No matter how much of a glorious-titted bitch she is, do you have any idea how many times I've already blown my load with you, Serika? My stamina's good, but it's not infinite.
"...This is too cruel."
Even so, as if she couldn't bring herself to believe that truth, Serika let out a sob and her body went limp, sinking down.
"You clearly said you'd be with me, but for a woman with that kind of chest to suddenly appear in front of you is just too cruel."
Even in this state, it was almost admirable how she blamed Ymir rather than me.
It must mean her feelings for me were that strong... Well, I was playing the role of her lover, so I supposed I ought to offer some comfort.
"Calm down, Serika. Nothing like that is going to happen anyway..."
"No, how could you possibly know that?"
But Serika seemed to disregard even that comfort, rambling on almost nonsensically.
"C-come to think of it, Ymir — she was incredible when I first saw her, but it felt like it had gotten even bigger since the last time. No, it definitely has gotten bigger. Even back then, as a woman myself, it was something I'd covet, so it's bound to grow even more while you're spending time with her!"
"Serika. I understand how you feel, but first, calm..."
"Enticed by breasts like that, you might end up reaching out a hand, Dave. It wouldn't be your fault, but if — just if — it h-happened, what am I supposed to do? No, no. No matter how I think about it, I can't leave you here!"
By now she had left me out of the matter entirely and was glancing back the way we'd come, her eyes growing sharper as she gnawed on her thumbnail.
"Th-th-that's right. Now that I think about it, that woman was never properly cooperative with the party in the first place, was she? She's definitely going to ruin things later. So we should kick her out now, while we can. No, if Berdia opposes it, I'll just find the right moment and..."
Well, well, well, just look at this one, will you? She's so crazy over a man she can barely string a rational thought together anymore.
Up until recently, I'd considered my connection with her a beneficial thing for the future, but it seemed the price for it had surfaced as a bigger problem than I'd anticipated.
Having her so thoroughly wrapped around my finger was good, but for it to turn into this kind of troublesome obsession and risk going off the rails like this...
"Serika."
I'd need to straighten her out a bit before she left.
"Don't worry, Dave. Before I leave, I'll make sure you don't get tempted..."
-Smack!
"...Huh?"
Her eyes went vacant along with the sharp sound of flesh being struck.
Right after her head drooped, I spoke to her in a firm tone.
"Serika. When I'm deciding whether to fuck a woman, the first thing I consider isn't tits or a face. It's whether she can be hypnotized or not."
"...U-uh, uuh, huh? Hypnosis?"
"Yeah. Hypnosis."
Squeeze!
I grabbed both her cheeks in my hands and hauled her right up to my face.
"So then, Serika. Just when did you think you stopped being under my hypnosis?"
"Euh, gyehp!"
"Since when did I give you permission to interrogate me like this?"
"U, u-eug, I-I'm sowwy... I'm sowwy, Massteerrr..."
The moment I slapped her cheek, her eyes had gone completely blank.
And now, even as she begged me pitifully while I held her, I could catch a hint of something like bliss in her voice.
She was enjoying getting hit. This lewd sow.
"...If you're sorry, you should be punished."
-Click.
With a single touch, the clasps of her armor came undone.
After that, I unfastened the buttons of the cloth garment underneath and roughly seized her breast as it spilled free.
"W-wait, Master. That part is... Angh!"
"Don't yell. It'll be a problem if anyone around here sees."
"Yes, yesh. I unders...stand... Oh-hoh!!"
The instant I rubbed her tit, her voice pitched upward. When I added a pinch to target her nipple squarely, the back of her head that had been leaning against the wall tilted back as if she was swooning.
"M-Masssteeerrr. S-stoppp!! Th-that place is sensitive, so if I get... weird... Oh-hoh~!"
"What's the matter? Just a moment ago you were singing a whole song about 'chest this' and 'chest that.' Weren't you practically begging me to torment your tits like this?"
"Ahh, ha, ahh, ah, ah! It feewsh... good! Getting pinched there feewsh sho good~♥"
Just from me toying with her nipples, she was making those vulgar sounds, and even trying to keep them from leaking out seemed to drain all her strength, her legs starting to tremble beneath her.
The shift from harasser to cornered prey happened in an instant.
Soon after the tables had turned and Serika's body slumped against the wall, I finally released her stiffly erect nipple from my fingers.
"He-euh, ah... Aah-hi...♡"
"...Seriously, just how much nipple masturbation have you been doing while I wasn't around for you to go off like that?"
Putting up with her company was something I'd tolerate for the sake of a publicly acknowledged relationship, but her getting obsessed beyond what was necessary was something I wanted to avoid.
For now, I'd end it here since there was no time, but if the same thing happened again later, I'd have to get serious about training her.
I made that point clear as I put her armor back on, then snapped my fingers to lift the hypnosis I'd placed on her.
"Serika."
"...U-uhh?"
Serika laboriously lifted her dazed head. With her armor restored and her posture back to normal,
her mind was probably half-blank from having experienced a climax just now.
"D-Dave? What just... M-mmph!"
Now that her overheated emotions had cooled, it wasn't hard to shift things to my pace.
I pressed my lips straight onto hers and pushed my tongue inside, breathing into her.
Serika's eyes flew wide open as if startled by the sudden act. But in the end, as if nothing had happened, she accepted my tongue and began to savour the kiss.
A kiss we'd repeated countless times over the last few days.
It was no exaggeration to say that by now, she'd moved past simply learning how to move when our tongues intertwined and had reached a stage where she responded reflexively.
"Fwah~♥"
The ecstatic expression etched onto her face at the end of that passionate kiss. Holding her chin, I quietly asked her while her body still lacked strength.
"Feels good?"
"Mmhmm. I feel like I'm about to float away..."
"You're the only one who can feel this good from my kisses, Serika."
I wasn't just mouthing empty words.
A person with as much licentious talent as her would be rare even among succubi.
The difference between her and those damned whores was that in our relationship, I held absolute dominance.
"With you being this drawn to me, do you really think I could ever let my eyes wander to another woman?"
"...No."
"Thank you for trusting me, Serika."
I pressed my lips to hers again, wrapped her body in an embrace, and whispered softly into her ear.
"So don't worry. Until you return, the kind of thing you're imagining won't happen."
I will never, ever cheat on you.
There was no lie in that statement. Because from the start, I was merely using the feelings she had for me.
So, if I can use that cow-titted bitch, then I should use her too.
Though judging by her temper, such an easy opportunity didn't seem likely to come my way.